Cloud Tech – Page 16 of 55

Dec 18, 2018, 4:19 PM

Instead of a real check on the growing power of Amazon Web Services, Oracle’s Larry Ellison offers nothing but words

At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 10:55 AM

Skytap cuts 25 marketing jobs amid shift to selling its cloud services through partners

Seattle’s Skytap signaled earlier this year it was going to be working much more closely with public cloud providers in… Read More

Dec 17, 2018, 10:10 AM

Oracle’s latest JEDI cloud contract protest spurs Amazon Web Services to defend itself in federal court

As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year,… Read More

Dec 16, 2018, 11:11 AM

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More

Dec 14, 2018, 11:49 AM

Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage

Another open-source enterprise technology company is walling off parts of its software from cloud infrastructure providers. Confluent announced Friday morning… Read More

Dec 13, 2018, 1:10 PM

Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software

As questions continue to swirl around the future of open-source software licensing and business models, Chef co-founder and Chief Technology… Read More

Dec 13, 2018, 11:30 AM

Tech Moves: Qumulo taps cloud storage vet to lead marketing; BitTitan adds head of global sales

— Molly Presley will head up product marketing at cloud storage startup Qumulo. Presley brings many years of storage marketing… Read More

Dec 13, 2018, 5:00 AM

With JavaScript support, Salesforce wants to make it easier for developers to build apps on its platform

Companies that want to customize their Salesforce experience around their own unique needs will now be able to tap into… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 1:54 PM

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Red Hat donates a key open-source Kubernetes tool to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Red Hat plans to announce Tuesday that it will donate an important tool that helps ensure Kubernetes clusters run reliably… Read More

Dec 11, 2018, 9:00 AM

Crashing KubeCon: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?

What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over… Read More

Dec 9, 2018, 1:03 PM

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More

Dec 4, 2018, 8:30 AM

Microsoft and Docker release new open-source project that’s basically a container for containers

Containers upended traditional software application deployment practices by opening up a whole new range of possibilities across multiple machines, and… Read More

Dec 4, 2018, 8:00 AM

Seattle’s Upbound introduces Crossplane, an open-source project to help companies manage applications across multiple public clouds

If you’re a company that wants to run workloads across multiple cloud providers but need some help making it happen,… Read More

Dec 4, 2018, 6:00 AM

Eclypsium raises $8.75M Series A round led by Madrona Venture Group to tackle hardware security

Chip vulnerabilities and supply-chain concerns have directed fresh eyes at the critical issues around hardware security, and a Portland-area startup… Read More

Dec 3, 2018, 6:00 AM

Microsoft makes real-time captions and translation standard in Office 365 PowerPoint

The next PowerPoint presentation you see may have live captions or subtitles, as Microsoft rolls out a real-time voice translation… Read More

Nov 30, 2018, 10:57 AM

New Relic CEO Lew Cirne is focused on customers “who play offense with software”

LAS VEGAS – The velocity of change in the enterprise computing market is an unsparing fact of life in this… Read More

Nov 29, 2018, 2:25 PM

Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware

LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service provider over the last 15 years knows… Read More

Nov 29, 2018, 11:00 AM

Amazon Web Services reveals a managed Kafka service for streaming data

LAS VEGAS – Yet another popular open-source project is now available as a managed service from Amazon Web Services with… Read More

Nov 29, 2018, 10:16 AM

Amazon Web Services expands serverless computing strategy with support for a wider variety of software development tools

LAS VEGAS – Developers building serverless applications on top of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda service will now be able to… Read More

Nov 28, 2018, 4:30 PM

New features from Amazon Web Services aim to make cloud security easier to manage

Even after all these years, during which private data centers have fallen victim to countless security breaches while cloud providers… Read More

Nov 28, 2018, 10:51 AM

Amazon Web Services will sell hardware to hybrid cloud customers to run in their own data centers

LAS VEGAS – The hybrid cloud has become an essential part of enterprise computing, and Amazon Web Services has decided… Read More

Nov 28, 2018, 9:58 AM

New machine-learning tech from Amazon Web Services includes GPU acceleration and a brand-new custom chip

LAS VEGAS — Machine learning is one of the fastest growing cloud services at the moment, and Amazon Web Services… Read More

Nov 28, 2018, 9:41 AM

Amazon Web Services joins the blockchain party with managed blockchain service for Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum

LAS VEGAS — Last year at re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy questioned whether blockchain technology was really… Read More

Nov 27, 2018, 3:20 PM

With Firecracker, Amazon Web Services reinvents its serverless computing infrastructure and open-source reputation

LAS VEGAS — Early developer reaction to Amazon Web Services’ Firecracker project suggests the company has pulled off a big… Read More

Nov 27, 2018, 12:15 PM

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators

LAS VEGAS — Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web… Read More

Nov 27, 2018, 10:16 AM

Microsoft Azure multi-factor authentication bug strikes again, causing issues for Office 365 users

For the second time in two weeks, Microsoft Azure’s multi-factor authentication system is down. ZDNet on Tuesday noted the outage, which prevents some… Read More

Nov 27, 2018, 6:00 AM

Amazon Web Services will now let companies set up internal IT-approved sets of cloud services in AWS Marketplace

LAS VEGAS – A lot of companies moving into cloud computing like to slow-play that transition, working with long-trusted partners… Read More

Nov 26, 2018, 10:13 PM

Network effects: Amazon Web Services touts improvements to its networking services that should boost app performance

LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services has built a state-of-the-art network around the world in order to serve its cloud… Read More

Nov 26, 2018, 8:31 PM

Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads

LAS VEGAS — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale… Read More